Quairading Photo Club

MAY 2023

PHOTO COMPETITION SUBJECT “EASTER TIME”

GOLD (23) JESSICA (LIVE CHICKEN & EASTER EGGS IN A BASKET)

SILVER (14) ARUN (MODEL WEARING A BUNNY COSTUME)

SILVER (14) ARUN (EASTER EGGS IN A WILLY WAGTAILS NEST)

BRONZE (11) CARA (ELIJAH & HIS FIRST EASTER EGG)

VIBRANT COLOURS!!! When you take photographs make sure you capture colours that are bright & vibrant, this makes the pic have some extra wow factor and makes your pics more powerful to the viewer. Whilst watching the Coronation of King Charles III on TV, all the pomp and grandeur was more than just colourful, it was a stately display full of vibrant colours. If you are a supporter of the Royals, to be at this event in London or anywhere else in England would be a Quairading Photo Club members dream. Colourful celebration parties took place everywhere and you could have started taking pics early in the morning and still be clicking away late into the night taking 100 ‘s of pics bursting with vibrant colours. Everyone dressed up to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III, dressed in their coloured fancy dress outfits and with cameras ready to capture amazing images of the worlds’ biggest fancydress party. During the ostentatious Coronation procession, the magnificent Gold State Coach stood out in all of its glory while transferring the new King wearing his Imperial Crown and being drawn along with eight white horses was indeed a rare sight to photograph. This 260-year-old coach was photographed by so many spectators, that it probably became one of the most photographed items on the planet. Interestingly old black and white photos of this coach still make it look very majestic. With so many red, white and blue coloured Union Jack flags and 56 flags of the Commonwealth being flown at this event, any pics taken on that day would have many colours in the background adding to your story telling photographs. The colours of the 4000 crown soldiers marching where the majority were attired with flamboyant bright scarlet red tunics was striking. The tunics worn by the Foot Guards with their majestic 45cm tall black bear skin hats, the Royal Horse Guards with their gold & bronze-coloured helmets and the Canadian Mounties were all compositions that would make a pic really POP. Like any bright red coloured coat or attire, they really stand out, photos captured of these soldiers would tell a story that signifies their strength, power, resilience & loyalty to the crown. The vibrancy of the colours throughout the coronation could be captured & recorded with your camera that create and tell a fairy tale type story. You don’t have to get invited to a Royal event to take colourful pics, just take your camera or mobile phone everywhere and think about how the colours in your photo composure can make your pics more powerful to the viewers by photographing vibrant colours.

CONGRATULATIONS!! HEY!!! The winner of the President / Curators Award at the 2023 Photo Competition held at York was won by Quairading Photo Club member Ann Marie. This award is collecting popularity and 165 pictures were entered. The pic AnnMarie entered was in the Monochromatic (Black & White) section and was a photo of the Quairading Pink Lake, depicting morning mist and was called “STILLNESS”. Quairading Photo Club members flew the flag for the Quairading photo club and entered 4 photos all of a high standard. All the winning entries for the York competition are featured on the ‘York Photographic Awards 2023 website’, but you need to navigate firstly to the ‘The York Society INC’, then click on ‘Home’, then click on ‘Winners Gallery’. I encourage you all to jump on the internet and view these world class photos . I am sure you will be inspired, to think about taking a pic of something , even if you don’t do the photography thing.

Our photo competition subject for May was EASTER TIME. Jessica won the chocolate easter egg bunny award’ for getting first place with a snap of a real live baby chicken sitting in a basket with easter eggs. “Easter Time” was the suggested subject so we would have a challenge to complete during Easter & include some photographic activity during Easter Sunday & maybe even photograph the easter bunny. Some members did report seeing the easter bunny but did not have their camera on hand.

Photos in the competition included: A Cross in a Church on Easter Sunday, Cara’s son eating his first easter egg, Portraits and Selfies of sitters with Easter Bunny costumes, various easter egg studies in outdoor settings and a Risqué Portrait of a Playboy Bunny.

At our May meeting Arun presented and demonstrated methods used to light your photographic subject or composition, this prepared the QPC members for our June 2023 subject - LIT BY ARTIFICAL LIGHT.

Anybody can join the Quairading Photo Club. We meet at the Quairading CRC at 7pm on the 2nd Tuesday. Currently we need to get some more members, so if you have thought about checking out a Photo Club meeting or just want to check out what we do, just roll up. You don’t need a flash camera, a lot of us use our mobile phones to take our winning pics.